"I'm seriously... not trying to be mean or anything. Old stuff is simply unremarkable compared to the metal of today (and I don't care about it laying the groundwork and shaping the genres yada yada)."

phlebas is breaking the law with his blasphemous verses. The Swarm Has Come By the Roar Of The Hammers Call And Soon the world will cease to be. Living in a mansion in darkness phlebas will undergo an outbreak of evil and become Sullen's angel of death, therefore Sullen will fade to black.